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PoetryPoems from Rubab Abdullah Shukla

Striving

8 April 2011, 18:00 PM

LITERATURE

Love to you, my friend
You are truly peerless . . .
Simply sanctified with
Abundance
Love, blessing, intellectual
Adherence . . .
Whatever you impart to me
I strive to pay back
Even more
You solely drive me in
Whatever you acknowledge
From me

Rubab Abdullah Shukla is a teacher and poet.

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Striving

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